Senior Supplier Risk, Resilience & Mapping Manager

The Senior Supplier Risk, Resilience & Mapping Manager is responsible for the design, execution and continuous improvement of GSA's global supplier risk and resilience capability. Reporting to the Director of Procurement Policy, Governance, Risk & Sustainability, the role provides an integrated view of supply continuity risk across the supplier network and converts that insight into prevention, mitigation, business continuity and crisis-readiness actions.

A core accountability is leading supply-chain mapping and analysis beyond Tier 1. The role develops and maintains risk-based visibility across suppliers, sites, parts, materials and upstream dependencies; analyses geographic, capacity, single-source, shared sub-tier and other concentration exposures; and converts those insights into prioritized sourcing, inventory, qualification, BCP and executive decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Supplier Risk Framework & Governance

Own and maintain the global procurement and supplier risk framework, including risk taxonomy, assessment methodology, segmentation, thresholds, escalation protocols, governance cadence and key risk indicators.

Maintain executive visibility of material supplier risks through risk registers, dashboards, trend analysis and clear articulation of exposure, controls, mitigation status and residual risk.

Establish risk appetite and prioritization criteria with senior stakeholders so resources are focused on the suppliers, products, materials and dependencies where disruption would have the greatest business impact.

Ensure supplier-risk controls are embedded into procurement lifecycle eg sourcing, category management, supplier management and relevant change or qualification processes.

Supply-Chain Mapping, Analysis & Upstream Visibility

Own the enterprise approach, methodology and multi-year roadmap for risk-based supply-chain mapping and analysis across priority products, components, materials, supplier sites and upstream tiers.

Build and maintain visibility of Tier 1 and material sub-tier relationships, including manufacturing locations, critical processes, key materials, transportation or regional dependencies and known alternative sources where relevant.

Integrate BOM, supplier, site, category, spend, quality and external-risk data to identify hidden dependencies and common points of failure across products and suppliers.

Develop repeatable data standards, ownership rules and refresh processes so mapping becomes a maintained capability rather than a one-time exercise.

Analyze mapping outputs to quantify geographic concentrations, single/sole-source exposure, shared sub-tier suppliers, critical material dependencies and other systemic vulnerabilities, and translate findings into prioritized risk and resilience actions.

Develop and implement a phased investment roadmap for sustainable supply-chain mapping and analysis capabilities, including assessment of technology and data-platform costs, internal resource and capability requirements, implementation and ongoing operating costs, and external third-party data, advisory and service-provider costs; define options, benefits, dependencies and business cases to support investment decisions.

Resilience, Scenario Analysis & Business Continuity

Translate risk and mapping insight into resilience actions such as alternate-source qualification, dual sourcing, inventory or safety-stock strategies, capacity actions, supplier development, logistics alternatives and business continuity requirements.

Own GSA's supplier continuity and BCP framework, including critical-supplier expectations, review standards, evidence requirements, testing approach and remediation of material gaps.

Develop scenario analysis and stress-testing for plausible disruptions, including geopolitical events, supplier/site outages, logistics constraints, critical-material shortages and concentration failures.

Partner with Category Management, Operations, Quality, Engineering and Planning to define response playbooks, decision triggers and recovery options for priority risks.

Monitoring, Intelligence & Emerging Risk

Establish an effective supplier monitoring model using internal data and approved external intelligence to identify financial, geopolitical, capacity, operational, quality, sanctions and location-based risk signals.

Define alert thresholds, triage processes and escalation routes so emerging risks are assessed quickly and converted into proportionate actions.

Develop KRIs and leading indicators that show deterioration, concentration or resilience gaps before disruption occurs, and assess the effectiveness of key controls over time.

Evaluate and help select technology, data and analytics capabilities required for supplier-risk monitoring, mapping, network analysis and scenario modelling.

Crisis Readiness & Response

Act as the senior GSA lead for supplier disruption risk assessment and support mobilization of cross-functional crisis response when trigger thresholds are met.

Provide rapid fact-base development during disruption events, including affected suppliers/sites, product and material dependencies, alternative sources, exposure duration and mitigation options.

Ensure lessons from incidents and near misses are captured into risk models, mapping priorities, controls and continuity plans.

Maintain clear handoffs between preventative risk management, operational incident response and broader enterprise crisis-management structures.

Role Interfaces & Boundaries

This role owns supply continuity risk, resilience, multi-tier mapping, dependency/concentration analysis, BCP and broad supplier-risk monitoring; it does not own procurement policy architecture or routine ESG compliance campaigns.

The Senior Manager, ESG owns supplier sustainability strategy, ESG regulatory roadmap and sustainability-performance requirements; this role incorporates environmental or social exposure where it creates material supplier or continuity risk and provides mapping/intelligence support.

The Responsible Sourcing & Compliance Manager owns operational human-rights/responsible-sourcing due diligence, supplier declarations, campaign execution, evidence administration, remediation tracking and recurring compliance reporting; this role provides supply-chain mapping and risk intelligence needed to target that work.

Procurement Policy & Governance owns GPMS/QMS policy and controls; this role defines supplier-risk and resilience requirements for incorporation into those frameworks.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Procurement, Engineering, Business, Risk or a related discipline (desirable).

Post-graduate qualifications or professional certifications in supply chain, procurement, risk, business continuity or resilience (desirable).

Experience

Significant experience in procurement, supply chain, supplier risk, operations, planning, quality or resilience roles within a complex global manufacturing environment.

Demonstrated experience designing or operating supplier-risk frameworks, risk registers, mitigation programmes and executive reporting.

Practical experience with supply-chain mapping, multi-tier supplier visibility, BOM/material dependency analysis, geographic or supplier concentration analysis, or equivalent network-risk methods.

Experience developing business continuity, disruption-response or resilience programmes and working through material supplier or supply-chain incidents.

Experience using supplier-risk data, monitoring platforms, analytics or external intelligence to support risk decisions; regulated or quality-driven industry experience is highly regarded.

Skills & Attributes

Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chains, supplier risk, continuity planning and resilience levers.

Advanced analytical capability with the ability to connect supplier, site, part/material and external-risk